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Cobb, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75161. The Survey maps it on the Wills Point quadrangle. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Cobb within Kaufman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

122 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Cobb between 1998 and 2020, burning about 926 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 316A
29 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEN COMMERCE ST
27 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-266
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000262
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-323
11 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZEY
1 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARNES
9 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEF052-2011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cobb: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tull PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Frog2.1 miles10
Cedar Grove3.1 miles12
Elmo3.5 miles10
Hiram4.9 miles10
College Mound5.4 miles10
Ables Springs7.0 miles12
McCoy7.6 miles12
Abner7.7 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CobbAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076441The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378138. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.